Word: necks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West, 69, six feet tall, fell down a well. The well was 20 feet deep; in its bottom were five feet of water. Standing in this, Edward West yelled for help. As he did so, his feet sank slowly into the mud and the water rose slowly along his neck, up his chin. At the end of an hour, the water reached the mouth of Edward West. Unable to shout any more, in a few minutes he would be unable to breathe. As he waited for a slow drowning, Edward West saw the face of one George N. Lyman...
...stands watching Meyer that afternoon were several men who had driven racing cars when they were younger. Of these the richest and most noted was a gentleman of French descent with a spike of a mustache, a lined face, thick neck, and popping black eyes-Louis Chevrolet, godfather of an automobile...
...gangplank of the S. S. George Washington there shambled, last fortnight, an unkempt, lanky man whose profile somewhat resembles that of the late famed Robert Louis Stevenson. Fellow passengers took small note of the droopy, bedraggled mustache, the old fashioned spectacles, the somewhat scrawny neck girt by a casual tie. Why should they? Not one American in ten thousand has ever heard of John Dewey...
...victims. Her death certificate read Vincent's Angina- Crippled Grace Fryer still sticks to her job. She has worked in a Newark bank ever since leaving the radium company seven years ago; still runs her department although her left elbow cannot move and she wears a brace from neck to hips. Twenty operations have been performed on her jaw. The Treatment. None. There is no way known to medical science of removing the radium from the bones of these doomed young women. Said Dr. Martland: "The deposits can be removed only by cremating the bone and then boiling...
...Count swung out wide around Misstep, then pulled away to win. Toro was third and the rest of the field stretched out for a sixteenth of a mile to Strolling Player who ran last. When Reigh Count had had the usual horse shoe of American beauties hung about his neck and Chick Lang had been cheered by the crowd, Mrs. Hertz took home the usual gold plate worth seven thousand dollars and a check...